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Lot 177*

A Cased Pair Of Continental 40-Bore Percussion Target Pistols
Mid-19th Century

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Cased Pair Of Continental 40-Bore Percussion Target Pistols
Mid-19th Century

With blued octagonal sighted barrels each rifled with fourteen grooves, plain breeches, tangs each with back-sight, plain flat locks and mounts (minor rust patination), the latter comprising shaped butt-caps each drawn-out to a diamond shape and with baluster terminal, spur trigger-guards and pointed trigger-plates, figured half-stocks each with fluted butt and carved with symmetrical foliage in low relief against a finely punched ground on the fore-end, white-metal barrel-bolt escutcheons, and no provision for ramrods: in original veneered wooden case fitted and lined in plum velvet with accessories (nipple-wrench replaced) including brass-mounted powder-flask, the body embossed with a putti and stag on each side
24 cm. barrels

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Provenance
Thomas Del Mar Ltd In association with Sotheby's, London 26 June 2007, lot 504

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